Hey all! Welcome to my blog about fabulous words. This is my very first post, so I'm going to try to make it worth your while. And the way that I am going to do that is by beginning with a word of the week. Every week I will choose a word that I think is interesting, or I have never heard of before and I will post the word with the meaning, the origin and where I saw the word used. I will also try to use it in a sentence that I have come up with myself. Be prepared! I will use a combination of Web sites to determine the meaning and origin of the word, including www.miriam-webster.com as well as www.dictionary.com. Also, I am not the best doing cool tricks with computers, so if I have an error with a link, I apologize, but I will try my best to ensure that everything is as accurate and efficient as possible. After all, I am a journalism major, and we love nothing more than accuracy and connecting our audience with as much information as possible. With that said, here is the first word I discovered earlier today in class.
CADRE
Pronunciation: \ˈka-ˌdrā
Part of Speech: Noun
Etymology: (multiple possible origins) French, from Italian quadro, from Latin quadrum square
1) a nucleus or core group especially of trained personnel able to assume control and to train others; broadly : a group of people having some unifying relationship. (Webster's Dictionary)
2) a group of trained or otherwise qualified personnel capable of forming, training, or leading an expanded organization, as a religious or political faction, or a skilled work force. (Dictionary.com)
Colleen's sentence: A cadre of doctors met this week for a medical convention in San Diego, Ca.
I first saw this word in the Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2008 Time article entitled, "How Healed is Hillary?" http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1836042,00.html
I chose this word because I had never heard it before and I love learning new words to dazzle people with!
